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...leader in his party. His party's friction with the Wood administration, which developed into an open breach nearly a month ago, has not lessened, but daily becomes rather more pronounced and more determined. As a result of winning for its candidate the senatorship of the district which contains Manila, the most important senatorial office in the Philippines, Guevara's party feels that it has the Philippines behind it in its policy of opposition to General Wood...
With the friction between Governor-General Wood and the Philippine Asembly at its height, great interest will attach to the announcement that Pedro Guavara of Manila, Philippine Islands, will probably speak at the Union Friday night, explaining the situation in the Islands and emphasizing the need of Philippine independence. Mr. Guavara arrived in this country late in August and is acting in Washington as one of the two official representatives to the United States of the party now in power in the Philippine Congress. He is coming to Boston to confer with Attorney Morfield Storey '66, who vigorously denounced...
...Guavara's place in the conflict has been a prominent one since in 1916 he became Senator from the 4th district, which was the most important as it includes Manila...
...mismanagement and private ambition of the Quezon group. It is demanding an investigation of expenditures from the Independence Fund which, it is claimed, Quezon and others have misused. In brief, the Democrats regard Quezon as a greater evil than Wood. In the election they lost the city of Manila by only about 3,300 votes out of 34,500, and claim that the loss had been less had the voting been more honest...
Olympic Stadium at Manila, attended by 10,000 people. Resolutions were passed, one of them for a boycott on the pro-Quezon newspapers-The Herald, El Debat, Vanguardia, Taliba and Watawat. One speaker said that if the Collectivista leaders did not reform their abuses there was no remedy but the bolo knife. Another declared that he had had to refuse permission to one of his followers in Cebu who wanted to assassinate Osmeua. " If it were not for me," he asserted, " Osmena would be dead...